Press Releases

Amnesty was the first international human rights organisation to hold talks with the Government of Nepal after King Gyanendra declared a state of emergency in the country, taking direct control of the...

Amnesty International UK Director Kate Allen said: "The onus is on the UK authorities to show that decisions over passports removals and other matters are not reliant on ‘torture evidence’...

The explosion took place on the Corniche in central Beirut near the derelict St George’s Hotel, and caused extensive damage to the road, cars and the fronts of buildings. Amnesty International...

Amnesty International’s Secretary General Irene Khan said: "Our first meetings with human rights defenders have highlighted a picture of insecurity, deepened by uncertainty in the wake of the state of...

A recent survey by Amnesty International and Global Witness revealed that UK diamond retailers are failing to provide consumers with assurances that the diamonds they sell are not "conflict diamonds"...

Amnesty International said: "Only a public inquiry established under the Tribunals of Inquiry (Evidence) Act 1921 will be able to shed light on collusion by state agents with Loyalist paramilitaries...

As well as the famous size-9 yellow leather trainers, which come with a script signed by the film’s cast, Amnesty is also auctioning: Coldplay’s signed, triple-platinum disc A Rush of Blood to the...

There were at least 650 executions reported in local media in the months of December and January alone. Both months are considered to be ‘normal’, without the peaks seen around certain public holidays...

In the past four and a half years more than 3,000 Palestinians, including some 600 Children's rights, have been killed, most of them unlawfully, by Israeli soldiers. Yet Israeli soldiers have...

Ohio’s Attorney General Jim Petro yesterday filed papers in an attempt to re-hear Kenny Richey’s appeal, despite the 6th Circuit Court of Appeals in Cincinnati last month declaring that his...